Eye of the Fish and Housing
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Fush and CHUP
- 29 Jul 2009
- Eye of the Fish
- Thanks to a very helpful chap at the Council, we’ve got some more images to show and tell regarding works to the Council Housing Upgrade Project.
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- housing
- architecture
- wellington city council
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘i quite like the way the hideous green paint on the corners has miraculously leapt off on building and onto the neighbour's place. That'll learn them !’
- ‘“No one wants to see your knickers on the line.” Not true. Some / plenty perhaps / do.’
- ‘jayseatee, re your comment: “…large public housing blocks (such as Chicago’s infamous public housing projects on South State Street, or Cabrini Greene.) Later these would be attacked for their dead public plazas and indefensible space, despite the fact t’
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Affordable Housing
- 23 Jul 2009
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s nice to be able to talk about good things happening in the Wellington architectural market, and the recent announcement in the DomPost about the new replacements for the WCC Regent Park flats is, to me, really good news.
- Tagged as:
- housing
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘Your positive observations are a great way to start the day Phil. The potential problems are the effect of the inevitable increase in rentals that will result from the capital re-evaluations and the reduction in the number of units with the proposed en’
- ‘All this discussion of how to house the poor and needy. It sounds awefully hard to hear the calls from such lofty heights. I live opposite Regent Park and my children got to school and play sport with the the kids from Te Aro Hou flats and the flats in’
- ‘Insightful comment Kaihuia. Myself, I always thought that it was CENTRAL government that was supposed to have a handle on public housing, NOT local government. I guess we’re paying for it one way or the other (rates and/or taxes). At least it looks like ’
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